Jack's Blog

News and comment on what's happening in the technology industry, and the direction it's heading.

Jack Schofield

Jack Schofield spent the 1970s editing photography magazines before becoming editor of an early UK computer magazine, Practical Computing. In 1983, he started writing a weekly computer column for the Guardian, and joined the staff to launch the newspaper's weekly computer supplement in 1985. This section launched the Guardian’s first website and, in 2001, its first real blog. When the printed section was dropped after 25 years and a couple of reincarnations, he felt it was a time for a change....

Latest Posts

Lenovo's MiiX 3 is a light convertible with a 10.1-inch screen, like the popular Asus T100TAF. Having bought one on impulse - it was cheap! - I've found it surprisingly useful, and it works even better with Windows 10.

Can AMD's seventh-generation Zen processor save the company? If not, it will need rescuing, and it's a deal that could make sense for a cash-rich Apple that could use custom SoCs in Macs as well as iPhones.

This is not just a refresh with sixth-generation Skylake processors: Dell is also bringing XPS 13 styling and infinity displays to the 15-inch laptop market, and adding a 12-inch tablet/keyboard combo.

Apple, Google, Microsoft and IBM have four of the five most valuable brands in 2015 - they're split by Coco-Cola - according to Interbrand's annual list of the top 100. But which ones have survived from 2005?

India's prime minister Narendra Modi has made a whirlwind visit to Silicon Valley to woo US tech firms with his vision of Digital India, and he's received support from Microsoft, Google, Qualcomm and Facebook....

If you're pushing the 15GB limit for Gmail and Google Drive, you can save space by using FindBigMail's service, or by running some simple searches - though you still can't delete attachments without deleting the emails as well.

Glassdoor, the jobs website, has published a list of the top 25 places to work in the UK. Facebook came top and Google bottom, but most of the companies are involved in IT, and not all of them are based in London....

Tablet shipments are still falling but tablets and 2-in-1s with bigger screens, like Microsoft Surfaces, are helping to extend the market from entertainment to business, from content consumption to creation.

Mozilla's CEO has published a letter of complaint about Windows 10's default browser settings - which actually affect all programs, not just browsers - and been parodied over Mozilla changing users' default search setting in its own Firefox browser....